Are you quick to dismiss a a new scientific theory?

[Kaneki05]

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My question was more focused on the keyword and implication of what dismiss means as in oppose to researching something then making your mind up. I feel like some of you understood that but some of you didn't so this is me been a bit more clearer.

Maybe a better question would of been just simply how quick are you to dismiss things but I feel like that's very broad compared to scientific theories.

[12Volt]

Microsoft had a theory that no one in their right mind would pay $500.00 for a stupid smartphone.

How did that theory work out for Billy Bob? lol

The Koreans are still laughing.

Now he has a theory that everyone except him and his friends, should eat crickets.

[Adaeva]

The word as tossed around in common use doesn't imply much. However, if it is an actual scientific theory, I will accept that as fact.

[12Volt]

People from your country attempt to look smart, but it doesn't work.
A theory is nothing more than an idea. Get over yourself.

[qwert1234]

Depends on where this "scientific theory" came from.

Youtube "doctors" who don't even link an official study to support what they are blabbering about? Dismissed.

Legit scientific journals/videos, say, from Harvard - interesting.

[exitseven]

I have a pretty good background in science and can usually tell when something is going to work and when it won't. I usually trust my gut before I dismiss anything.

[exitseven]

Thanks for the MHO😎

[CloudMassacre]

If it’s an actual theory, no. If it’s a hypothesis, sure

[Kaneki05]

Hmm but without the hypothesis you never get the theory so if you dismissed them to quickly you could be dismissing a potentially new theory.

[CloudMassacre]

A theory is something that’s been tested over and over again. If a new hypothesis has any validity, it’ll get tested over and over again and be shown to be true or not

[Kaneki05]

Indeed which by extension you would need not to dismiss the hypothesis to then test it. Test it a couple times then make an evaluation before dismissal is what I am getting at.

[CloudMassacre]

If it’s a New Theory, it’s gone through that testing process. So I don’t really get the question

[Kaneki05]

The question is based on how open are you to a new finding. Some people are very quick to just go nah I doubt they've done that or I doubt that leads to that etc etc. In ideal the answer should always be never.
Because why would you dismiss it unless there is an actual evidence against. But sadly many people do dismiss things with plenty evidence for but with no real evidence against.

[CloudMassacre]

If it’s a theory, it’s already gone through the scientific process, so I don’t have any reason to poof dismiss it

[Kaneki05]

Interesting so you don't question it at all? Now I would call that the other side of extreme which is also bad in my view.

[CloudMassacre]

I don’t question it because I have no way of testing them and they don’t have any impact on my life. Like, the theory of gravity or relativity. I can also just look up the evidence for them and see that it’s verified

[Kaneki05]

I see fair enough. I am more a science buff granted so I like to learn to a lot about them first understanding how they work before I accept them. Because it's always good to question and try understand.
This not really to do with the question but more to do with just us talking, I figured out I suppose that I don't really get people who just take them at face value without fully understanding them first. Which of course is many people so guess that's just normal.

[CloudMassacre]

I don’t fully understand gravity, but I believe it to be true

[Kaneki05]

Hmm yeah I don't get that. Because then that's more belief system in it than understanding and knowing why it is objectively true.

[CloudMassacre]

Science still doesn’t fully understand how gravity works, so I disagree

[Kaneki05]

We understand how it exists and why and how it works. There is questions within parts of gravity we still need to figure it out but we can objectively prove that gravity does exist without just believing it does.

[jshm2]

Never just dismiss anything, but always check the source.

These days any dimwit with a Masters thinks he's a PhD

[CAPTAIN-OBVIOUS]

Nope a theory becomes one when a hypothesis is proven to be correct over and over again with no exception.

[Massageman]

depends on what sort of proof of support there is for the "theory".

[DeeDeeDeVour]

No, I try to keep an open mind.

[LiamJHayden]

No, but I am slow to accept.